THE ADMINISTRATION: Keeping the Shop

As Washington's well-geared
diplomatic machinery shifted smoothly last week to meet each crisis in
Hungary or the Middle East, night lights burned long in the fifth-floor
State Department suite of a man laboring earnestly to help dictate the
shifts. Herbert Hoover Jr., Acting Secretary of State while his chief
recuperated in Walter Reed Hospital, had pushed his normal twelve-hour
workday to 15 and 18 hours, was gaining extra confidence with each
extra duty.

As Under Secretary since September 1954, the former President's
handsome, six-footer son helps supervise a 12,000-man department,
scoops off as many of Dulles' burdens as he can,...